Cory Smith

Someone came up to me after the presentation and said: "Those pictures of the kids weren't just any kids, right?" I responded, "You caught that, did you?" He confirmed and told me he was whispering that "those aren't just any kids" to his friend during the presentation.

VCFSW 2025 WAS AWESOME! The video of my presentation has been posted... youtu.be/F7Nm7nLjtAk?si…

youtu.be/7V6nucKFK88?si… YES... YES... YES... YES... and YES!!!! As a father of two young girls who are directly impacted by the current experiment... and as someone deeply involved in technology for over 30 years; I can 100% agree with every... single... word... she said!

@CoinPriceTag @AvaloniaUI Thank you, good to hear someone appreciates the efforts.

@DualBrain @AvaloniaUI It would be amazing!!! Love your contributions for VB.

Certainly not implying it's of *production quality* at this point, but passing along that @AvaloniaUI templates for #visualbasic now available in source form at github.com/CommunityVB/Te… ; will will publish as nuget packages after some time for testing and (hopefully) feedback.

Is a "one-time pin" really a one time pin if you have to repeat the process every time you authenticate? Is this the seriously the best thing that *smart people* could think of? Every time I go through the process I feel like I'm being a bit insulted... or is that just me?

@realDotNetDave Welcome to the party, pal!

So, what are your feelings about some teams at Microsoft ditching C# for Rust? securityboulevard.com/2024/02/micros…

@salelele It is a desktop application that (hopefully) will run on Windows and Linux (possibly macOS). No emulator required. And the goal is to reproduce the original as much as possible.

@DualBrain Looks so much like a replica of the original! Would this work under windows; or from the command line or would we have to install a DosBox or something like that?

Posit the question... what if there were a *true* replacement to QBasic? What would that look like? How fast could it run? What would the overall Edit/Run (F5) experience be? Here's a sneak peek at what could be...

@ejsmith Don't you know it! (And, yes, there's some GORILLA gaming in the future.)

@DualBrain You are a crazy man! I do miss me some QBasic and Gorilla though. 🙂

What is this voodoo... (about 3 weeks of work, that's what)🤪

@chrisjohnson_nz I see some of the comments somewhat "justifying" the *steps backward* due to the technology changing. In the end it's all about driving pixels to the screen, push/pull data from a storage medium and accepting user input. So, really, there isn't any excuse.

Yup. It’s weird how the developer productivity and tooling experience has only got worse since then too. We used to be able to build apps & place buttons exactly where you wanted them without a phd in CSS with drag and drop, hook it up to a DB in a couple of mins. Now it’s like doing it all in the equivalent of notepad! Insanity. #GetOffMyLawn

@Tyrrrz And if you don't get it right... ye shall be mocked. For what it's worth, this problem doesn't exist in #visualbasic. ;-) #stabilityisafeature

C# 12 primary constructors definitely add some confusion in regard to naming. Now, depending on whether you use a normal constructor, a record primary constructor, or a regular primary constructor — you have to use one of three different naming conventions.

You know... you have to give it to a project maintainer that is attempting to educate a group on how there's no interest by a particular community when several from that very community are actively engaged in that very conversation. #visualbasic #dotnet #notdeadyet

@richcampbell I've definitely been there... thank you git/@github for the many rescues they've provided over the past recent years for situations just like this. ;-)

I mean, what's the worst that could happen?

@grokys @AvaloniaUI @OpenSilverTeam This is great! However, doesn't address the vocal negativity toward #visualbasic by members within the @avaloniaui community. CLR/CLS/CLI is about language diversity and choice; VB developers should not be made to feel bad for their choice because it doesn't match your choice.

@AvaloniaUI is a great looking platform; however, it seems to be filled with those that that believe that "#visualbasic is dead". And it's too bad... it's so very close to welcoming us - limited only to what appears to be a people problem. At least the @OpenSilverTeam loves us!

@richcampbell Been there... many a time. :-(

I did this to myself.

@MStrehovsky Yes... yes it is. ;-) Not able to ultimate small file size in comparison; but as a consolation prize... native on Windows and Linux!

@MStrehovsky This is AWESOME!!!! stuff! Wonders to self if this is possible using #visualbasic... hmmmmm...

For my next trick I'm going to build a 64 MB self-contained game in C# and then shrink it to 1936 bytes in 10 steps. Read all about it in my latest article: migeel.sk/blog/2024/01/0…

@MStrehovsky Awesome article. Earlier I commented that I wondered if it was possible to do this sort of stuff in #visualbasic. Why YES... yes you can! Not able to use bflat to get to the smallest size - but my VB version also runs on Linux; at about 2mb. 🤯